ClassicalMasque
@classicalmasque.bsky.social
“I am very still / I take in all the angles of the room”
DEATH IS NOT THE END // RE-ENTER THE LOOP, TRAVELLER
DEATH IS NOT THE END // RE-ENTER THE LOOP, TRAVELLER
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"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
How to explain AI to your family this holiday season | CNN Business
Politics, football and movies are among the many topics that tend to come up around Thanksgiving. In 2025, a new question may arise at the table: Why the heck is everyone talking about AI, and what sh...
www.cnn.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
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“… coerced infection—the complete lack of mitigation and the normalization of mass and repeated infection of a debilitating virus—is ubiquitous throughout society.“
open.substack.com/pub/jacobsch...
open.substack.com/pub/jacobsch...
Our Culture of Coerced Infection
“You Do You”—unless you are trying to protect yourself from Covid
open.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:35 AM
“… coerced infection—the complete lack of mitigation and the normalization of mass and repeated infection of a debilitating virus—is ubiquitous throughout society.“
open.substack.com/pub/jacobsch...
open.substack.com/pub/jacobsch...
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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This was obvious from the moment it was announced, but still worth mentioning. The genocide never ended.
The diplomatic "achievement" of the ceasefire was to recalibrate the tempo of the genocide sufficiently to get it off the front pages and the news bulletins, thus alleviating the political pressure on Israel's western accomplices.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says
The NGO’s chief says last month’s ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal’
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:35 AM
This was obvious from the moment it was announced, but still worth mentioning. The genocide never ended.
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I don’t think you’ll get a more “on the nose” example of blowback than a guy from Afghanistan who America trained to go around executing civilians in something called a “zero squad” who later moves to America and attacks the American government. Like holy shit what the fuck are we doing here?
November 28, 2025 at 5:08 AM
I don’t think you’ll get a more “on the nose” example of blowback than a guy from Afghanistan who America trained to go around executing civilians in something called a “zero squad” who later moves to America and attacks the American government. Like holy shit what the fuck are we doing here?
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i love him so much
November 26, 2025 at 11:10 PM
i love him so much
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Shoutout to every retail worker this week. May the bullshit you deal with be minimal
November 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Shoutout to every retail worker this week. May the bullshit you deal with be minimal
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SCULLY: It's impossible. There's no one on earth who could teach you to fit that many marshmallows in your mouth.
MULDER: Daff righ...... No one...... on urff...
MULDER: Daff righ...... No one...... on urff...
December 7, 2024 at 5:42 AM
SCULLY: It's impossible. There's no one on earth who could teach you to fit that many marshmallows in your mouth.
MULDER: Daff righ...... No one...... on urff...
MULDER: Daff righ...... No one...... on urff...
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“Once, after the group bought out a tamale vendor’s cart, that man found them days later to say immigration agents were spotted on his block just hours after. ‘You saved my life,’ Rosales said the man told them.” apnews.com/article/chic...
Chicagoans buy out street vendors amid a federal immigration crackdown
Across Chicago’s Latino neighborhoods, fear of a federal immigration crackdown has emptied the streets.
apnews.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
“Once, after the group bought out a tamale vendor’s cart, that man found them days later to say immigration agents were spotted on his block just hours after. ‘You saved my life,’ Rosales said the man told them.” apnews.com/article/chic...
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I really do not understand stretching power resources to produce more of a thing no one needs
Problem: AI needs massive amounts of power to thrive. Nuclear makes lots of power. Nuclear takes a long long time to do safely.
Proposed solution that I'm sure will have no unpleasant consequences: Use AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear plants.
Proposed solution that I'm sure will have no unpleasant consequences: Use AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear plants.
Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants
Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.
www.404media.co
November 24, 2025 at 9:07 AM
I really do not understand stretching power resources to produce more of a thing no one needs
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Huge update!!! We received a few more large donations tonight! We're up to $4,755 total raised with a little over a week to go! Can we hit 5k???
Another BIG UPDATE! We've received another donation from within the community that we will be adding to the prize pool! We'll be raffling off a Collector's Box of Edge of Eternities as well as a copy of today's Encyclopedia of Magic Secret Lair. thank you to our silent donor!
November 24, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Huge update!!! We received a few more large donations tonight! We're up to $4,755 total raised with a little over a week to go! Can we hit 5k???
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Francis was more Mike Shinoda whereas Leo is more Chester
November 24, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Francis was more Mike Shinoda whereas Leo is more Chester
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(guy living an unexamined life) yay wheeeeeeeee
November 8, 2024 at 2:34 PM
(guy living an unexamined life) yay wheeeeeeeee
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marjorie taylor greene couldnt handle a single week experiencing 1% of the harassment that someone like ilhan omar probably experiences every day, in significant part because of her. she is weak and a coward and will rot in hell imo
November 22, 2025 at 1:22 AM
marjorie taylor greene couldnt handle a single week experiencing 1% of the harassment that someone like ilhan omar probably experiences every day, in significant part because of her. she is weak and a coward and will rot in hell imo
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Y’all have got to stop trying to teach people magic with edh
Pope Leo XIV Will Have Lunch With 4 Trans Women in "Unprecedented" Meeting
https://www.them.us/story/pope-leo-xiv-lunch-trans-activists-alesia-nobile
https://www.them.us/story/pope-leo-xiv-lunch-trans-activists-alesia-nobile
November 15, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Y’all have got to stop trying to teach people magic with edh
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You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
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"Your justice has layers. Of course, my favorite musical is the hopeful reimagining of America’s birth, Hamilton. The good news is I work in the room where it happens. The bad news is the room is in hell, and Amy Coney Barrett keeps trying to touch my cowrie shells."
With America on My Last Fucking Nerve, I, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, Dissent
You know me as the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court. Over the past three years, I’ve tried changing the system from within. I’ve wri...
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November 20, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
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“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
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This Trans Day of Rememberance, I am feeling grateful to have so many Trans friends still in my life, thriving and being their best selves. I offer a prayer for peace upon those of our siblings whose travels ended before they reached the sunlight. Thank you for giving us even these brief moments.
November 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
This Trans Day of Rememberance, I am feeling grateful to have so many Trans friends still in my life, thriving and being their best selves. I offer a prayer for peace upon those of our siblings whose travels ended before they reached the sunlight. Thank you for giving us even these brief moments.
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trying to start a moral panic and the stories are all like “the ADHD meds really helped but didn’t solve everything”
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 PM
trying to start a moral panic and the stories are all like “the ADHD meds really helped but didn’t solve everything”
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This absurd oversensitivity about professors having sex with minors procured for them by sex criminals shows that campus cancel culture is out of control.
by Alan Dershowitz and Larry Summers
by Alan Dershowitz and Larry Summers
November 20, 2025 at 1:30 AM
This absurd oversensitivity about professors having sex with minors procured for them by sex criminals shows that campus cancel culture is out of control.
by Alan Dershowitz and Larry Summers
by Alan Dershowitz and Larry Summers
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we need to invent time travel so we can give both John Brown & Nat Turner power armor
November 17, 2025 at 9:09 PM
we need to invent time travel so we can give both John Brown & Nat Turner power armor
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Why am I so against generative AI in games?
Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.
Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.
November 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Why am I so against generative AI in games?
Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.
Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.